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Micron Technology, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers
of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations, Micron
manufactures and markets DRAMs, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors, other
semiconductor components, and memory modules for use in leading-edge computing,
consumer, networking, and mobile products. Micron's common stock is traded on
the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the MU symbol. To learn more about
Micron Technology, Inc., visit www.micron.com.
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Micron
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:-
In November 2007 - said it would launch a
family of SATA flash SSDs in Q1 2008.
Their 2.5" SSDs marketed
under the Crucial SSD brand are also
available in an external enclosure or with a 3.5" mounting kit.
Their
Lexar brand SSDs include ExpressCards for notebooks.
In February
2008 -
Intel and
Micron Technology
unveiled details of their new
high speed NAND
flash technology which can sustain speeds up to 200MB/s for reads and
100MB/s for writes.
In April 2008 - Micron and
Nanya Technology
announced they were each investing $550 million in cash in a new joint venture.
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- SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance" |
| Does
the fatal gene of "write endurance" built into
flash
solid state
disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration
applications - such as RAID
systems? |
It
was certainly true as little as a few years ago.
What's the risk with
today's devices?
This article looks at the current generation of
products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried. |
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| RAM based SSDs have been
used alongside RAID for years - but
flash SSDs are
physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 412G in 2.5", 512G in
3.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured
in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single
flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to
look interesting.
...read the
article,
storage reliability
solid state disks | |
